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SIX 
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SIX MONTHS 
IN RENO 



GEO. W. BOND 




Lester J, Hilp, Sole Reno Agent 



STANLEY GIBBONS, Inc. 
198 Broadway, New York 



COPYRIGHTED 1921 
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CHAPTERS 



I. The City of Reno. 

II. Reno's Business Houses. 

III. Reno's Professional Men. 

IV. Reno's Housing Accommodations. 
V. Reno's Roads and Resorts. 

VI. Reno's Social Life and Entertainment. 

VII. Reno's Legal Side. 

VIII. The Law. 

IX. Railroad Distances and Fares. 



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m 12 1921 



Chapter I. 
THE CITY OF RENO. 



THE City of Reno is situated in Western Nevada, 
twelve miles from the California State line, and is 
practically surrounded by mountains. 

Leslie Curtiss, that well-known author, describes the 

City as "A Cameo set in snow-clad mountains, kissed by 
glowing sunsets, caressed by pure breezes from the great wastes 
of silence, a beautiful garden on the edge of the desert." 

Most Eastern people who talk of Reno, seem to think it 
is a little town composed of cowboys, wooden shacks and wild 
Indians; I, myself, asked a New York lawyer what kind of a 
place Reno was and I got for answer, "It is a little Western 
town with nothing to do but to loaf and live out your six 
month's cure. " 

Some kind friend told me it was "So near California that 
it was sure to be nice and warm all winter long," whilst the 
only other man I met who professed to know anything about 
it at all, told me that "there were lots of silver mines in Reno;" 
although I have, from that day to this, failed to see how the 
proximity of silver mines helps anyone's sojourn in Reno. 

There are two ways of reaching Reno, one from the East 
and one from the West, people coming from the Eastern cities 
usually go directly to Reno by the Overland Limited or by 
the Pacific Limited, whilst those who come from the West find 
it to be only one night's journey from San Francisco. 

For New Yorkers, however, there is a charming way of 
making this journey, by combining a sea trip with a railroad 
journey. If ones cares to do so, one can take the Mallory 



6 Six Months in Reno 

Line steamers from the City of New York to Galveston, 
Texas, by way of Key West, Florida. 

Arrivmg at Galveston one takes a little shuttle train to 
Houston and from Houston one travels to San Francisco, 
passmg through Los Angeles. This is a particularly interest- 
ing journey because one is able to get a glimpse of Florida, 
and the railroad trip from Houston to San Francisco affords 
a combination of insights into the desert, from the desert to 
the orange groves; from the orange groves to long lines of 
beautiful blue sea washing the California coast and thence to 
San Francisco. 

After a night's ride from San Francisco I arrived at Reno 
about eight o'clock in the morning, to find myself not in a 
town of cowboys, wooden shacks and Indians, but in a real 
up-to-date progressive little City of some fifteen thousand 
inhabitants. 

True it is that there are no Woolworth buildings, no 
Rookeries, nor Hippodromes but the business streets are lined 
with well-built structures averaging four or five stories filled 
to overflowing with busy tenants, whilst the bank buildings are 
particularly fine and substantial and are certainly the equal 
of New York banks as far as accomodation goes. 

I was instantly struck by the exceedingly high class of 
merchandise exhibited in the store windows and any one 
imagining that the stores of Reno have a lot of last years 
fashions, will receive a very severe shock to this impression 
after he or she walks up Virginia Street. The merchants 
themselves, or their representatives, make the usual pilgrimage 
to the fashion centers of the East, several times a year so that 
their merchandise can truly be termed "up to the minute." 

There are !wo distinct residential districts divided, as is 
usual in most American cities, by the railroad. That part 



Six Months in Reno 7 

of Reno which hes to the north of the railroad tracks, is almost 
entirely made up of private houses and, except in a very few 
instances there is practically no business center on that side of 
the tracks. 

The South Side is the side that contains the hotels, apart- 
ment houses, larger private houses, the Court House and the 
Parks. 



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LOOKING NORTH ON VIRGINIA STREET 

This photograph was taken from the bridge of the Truckee 
River; on the left is the Masonic Hall and thence all the way 
down on the left are Reno's first class shops, extending possi- 
bly four blocks. On the right is the United States Post Office 
and likewise all the way down are more shops of the first grade. 

The Truckee River, an extremely picturesque and winding 
stream, divides the business from the residential section. 

From a folder lately issued by the Reno Chamber of 



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Six Months in Reno 



Commerce I gather the following authentic facts: "Reno is 
three miles square, and is forty-five hundred feet above the 
sea level. Its w^inters are short, moderately cold and open 
with very little snow. The summers are dry, cool, and de- 
lightful with no thunder storms, hail, fog nor earthquakes. 
Average days without a cloud in the sky 195, partly cloudy 
105, and cloudy 65. Doctors prescribe Reno's sunshine, dry 
atmosphere and altitude for health." 




THE TRUCKEE RIVER FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE 



New Yorkers, therefore, who have passed through an 
average New York summer, which chiefly consists of a Turk- 
ish bath atmosphere with almost daily thunder storms and 
drenching rain, will appreciate this wonderful climate. 

Add to this desirable climate a pure water supply, good 
hotel accomodations, good schools, good streets and a hos- 
pitable lot of permanent residents and you have some faint 
idea of Reno. 



I Six Months in Reno 9 

In the following chapters I propose to describe in more 
detail the various phases of life in Reno, the amusements that 
can be found here — where to live — what to do — and how to 
do it. As our American life centers round business, perhaps 
it would be well to devote a few lines to that phase first. 



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Chapter II, 
RENO'S BUSINESS HOUSES. 

TO describe the main street of Reno, which naturally 
contains the business stores, I should perhaps make it 
more intelligent to an Eastern reader if I said that it 

reminds me very much of Thirty-fourth Street in New 

York, and whilst, of course, stores do not have the vast selec- 
tions that one finds in the Metropolitan Cities, still, the class 
of merchandise carried in the Reno stores is certainly of a 
very high order. 

I found very little cheap trash offered, and any article of 
daily necessity wanted by any man or woman was there, and 
that article was good. 

I would also say that I had no difficulty is finding almost 
anything that I wanted, and I found the prices to be quite 
reasonable. 

Naturally one must expect to pay a little more for an 
article on which the freight for some three thousand miles cuts 
quite a figure, but notwithstanding all of this the prices were 
still reasonable. 

I do not propose to give any particular send off to any 
particular store — the advertising pages will do this. 

The ladies, who naturally spend more time and money 
in the shops than the men, will certainly have no cause to 
complain of their experiences, and for this reason I would 
suggest that people who intend to visit Reno, would do well 
if they only brought with them such supplies as they actually 
have on hand when leaving their homes, so that upon arrival 
here they will be able to purchase merchandise which was 
entirely suitable to the climate. 



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"That Cleaner Who Cleans' 



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Dry Cleaning a Specialty 

Laces, Linens, Silks, Woolens, Furs 

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There are at least half a dozen first class drug stores, 
an equal number of dry goods stores, several very good shoe 
stores, besides quite a few shops that cater to the fanciful 
tastes of the ladies in the way of knick-knacks. 

There is also an excellent French cleaner who does pre- 
eminently good work, which will be welcome news for fas- 
tiduous visitors. 

Most of the business men in Reno belong to a very pro- 
gressive Chamber of Commerce which is in itself a meeting 
place for the business people of Reno and a very excellent 
place for the welcome visitor, since the Chamber maintains a 
voluminous library and a very comfortable reading room. 

And further than this, the Chamber indulges quite some in 
social activities and is particularly proud of its Glee Club, 
which is formed of Reno business men. 

The president of the Chamber of Commerce is ready and 
willing, at all times, to furnish every possible information upon 
any subject pertaining to Reno or, in fact, to the entire State 
of Nevada. I made considerable use of this Chamber of 
Commerce for the membership fee of $25 per year is well 
spent from the men's point of view, but being practically a 
business club, I do not think the ladies would find it very 
useful to them. Reno is a distributing center for all of Nevada 
and for quite a portion of Eastern California, and for that 
reason any one wishing to engage in industrial activities will 
find Reno a city of considerable opportunity. 

The population of every city is usually made up of three 
classes of men. Business men, Professional men and Loafers. 
I have endeavored to explain the business end of Reno, and 
not knowing anything about the loafing end I am incompetent 
to discuss it and so I find myself left to say a few words about 
the Professional men. 



I 

EDWARD C. GALSGIE | 

M. D., D. O. I 



Physician and 
Surgeon 



specializing in 
OSTEOPATHY 



Odd Fellows Building Reno, Nevada 

Phone 416 



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Chapter III. 
RENO'S PROFESSIONAL MEN. 

ONSIDERING that Reno has only about 15,000 
people I was surprised to find such an exceptionally 
fine class of professional man, but after careful in- 
quiry I found the cause to be the same as that effecting 
its business men, namely, that Reno is a distributing point and 
a great many residents of Nevada come to Reno for expert 
advice in cases which appear to be out of the ordinary. I need 
hardly touch upon the point that there are a preponderance of 
lawyers, that is to be expected, since Reno is much absorbed 
in the divorce situation. The classified directory gives me 
ninety lawyers, but I think there are probably more. Con- 
cerning their business I have nothing to say in this chapter. 
The whole legal question of divorce is treated by an expert 




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Diamonds 

We have but one object in selling you a Diamond 
and that is to give you the 

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Visitors to Reno 

Can have their old Jew^elry reset in Gold or Platinum 
in the very latest up-to-date styles 

R. Herz & Bro., Inc. 

Thirty-five Years in the Same Locality 

237 N. VIRGINIA ST. 

(Next door to American Express Co.) 

Reno, Nevada 



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in this line in later chapters. There are several first class doc- 
tors in this town, and a considerable number of gentlemen 
practicing chiropratic methods of drugless healings, etc. 
There is also one good X-Ray Specialist, and I believe I am 
right in saying that a second and very imposing X-Ray outfit 
is about to be installed. We have here some excellent dentists 
fully equal to any practicing in the larger cities. In addition 




THE Mckinley park school 

to it there are four hospitals, St. Mary's Hospital being also 
a training school for nurses. 

With a staff of thirty-three physicians these hospitals are 
well able to take care of any emergency, and there is no doubt 
but what the most expert treatment can be secured right in 
the City of Reno, so that any visitor arriving in Reno with 
the telephone number of her Eastern Doctor in her pocket- 
book, can save the telephone calls and be perfectly taken care 
of right here in Reno. Under the heading of professional 




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men I presume that must include the bankers, and there is 
little to say on this question. Any one arriving in Reno will 
see some banks and bank buildings that will open his eyes. 
There are no less than six banks having deposits close to 
$16,000,000 the clearing average being four and one-half 
millions a month. From a banking point of view, therefore, 
Reno does the business of a City of at least twice its size. 
Again we must class under professional men the Clergy and 




MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES 



School teachers. There are twelve churches in Reno, the 
Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Christian 
Science, Lutheran, Methodist, Christian and Missionary Alli- 
ance, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Ad- 
ventist, and Spiritualist, so that there is absolutely no lack for 
the spiritual needs of the visitor. When 1 touch on the schools 
I do so because a number of ladies coming to Reno bring their 
children with them and it must naturally interest them to know 
that the schools are of a very high order. In Reno there are 



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Ladies 



If you wish to see the Finest Lingerie — just as fine 
as is shown in New York's most exclusive shops — 
all you need do is to visit the 

The Silk and Linen Shop 

25 W. FIRST ST. 

— Reno — 

(Opposite the Rialto Theatre) 

This Store is continually^ supplying Silf(s, Linens 
and real Laces to Eastern customers Tvho originally^ 
made their purchases here. 







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Riverside 
Studio 

The kind you like to 
show your friends; 
the kind they like to 
see. Not high priced 

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228 N, Virginia St. 
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five grammar schools, three kindergartens, a High School and 
of course the University of Nevada is here in Reno, 

I am told that the School of Mines, so liberally endowed by 
Clarence Mackey, is one, if not the very best in the country. 
Very few of the people arriving here have any definite home 
to go to and I think one of the most important chapters of 
this book is the one which deals with what I call the Housing 
Accommodations. The next chapter deals with this problem 
rather extensively. 

The author of this book finds that it is a practice amongst 
the best dentists to discountenance any form of advertismg. It 
is not for him to question the wisdom of this proceeding but it 
is certainly of interest to visitors to Reno to know of reliable 
dentists should they have occasion to consult them. The author 
knows positively that the undermentioned are absolutely A-1 
dentists. 

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Chapter IV. 

RENO'S HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS 

F ANYBODY asked me what kind of housing accom- 
modations were m Reno I should be rather incHned to 
grade it down by saying there is one Hotel running on 
the American plan suitable for men, women and chil- 
dren ; two first class Hotels catering more particularly to the de- 
mand of commercial men; some forty or more small Hotels 
catering to various classes of trade. After the latter come the 
private houses, many proprietors of which are glad to rent one 
or more rooms to visitors. The Riverside Hotel, well situated 
just out of the business district and overlooking the beautiful 
Truckee River, is the hotel to which many people go upon 
their arrival. This hotel runs on the American plan and rates 




THE RIVERSIDE HOTEL 



Six Months in Reno 25 

can be secured by writing the management. The next two 
hotels are patronized to a great extent by business men coming 
to Reno and of course, to some extent by visitors. Both the 
Golden and the Overland Hotels are situated within one block 
of the depot. They are well built, fire proof structures and 
undoubtedly should be classed A-1. The two hotels are con- 
ducted on the European plan and might be more suitable to 
those people who prefer to take their meals when they like and 
wherever they may happen to be. Both the "Overland" and 
"Golden" are managed by highly experienced hotel men and 
people whom I have known to live there have nothing but praise 
for the management. Disposmg of these three hotels we come 
to a large number of what should be called rooming houses. 
These accommodations are usually above ground-floor stores 
and scattered right in the heart of the business center. The few 
that I have been in are well kept and clean, and the rates run 
from $8.00 to $15.00 per week, according to the choice of 
the room. There are also in Reno a number of apartment 
buildings, and exceedingly nice buildings they are too. As a 
rule they consist of a nicely furnished sitting room with Vv^riting 
desk affixed to a door which swings around and exposes, on 
its reverse side, a very comfortable iron bed which pulls down 
at night. Why this system is not adopted in the East 1 do 
not know, but out in the West, particularly in San Francisco, 
and Los Angeles, this form of apartment is very common in- 
deed, and well patronized. In these little apartments are com- 
fortable little kitchens provided with all the necessary utensils 
and also a thoroughly modern bathroom, so that each apart- 
ment is a self-contained flat properly furnished and well heated. 
The rents for these apartments run from $50.00 to $65.00 
per month. Those of more pretentious proportions rent for 
$75,00 to $100.00. Amongst the best of these apartments 



26 Six Months in Reno 

I would mention : The Frandsen, the Conway, the Ridgeway, 
the Colonial, the Gibson and several others. Reference to the 
advertisements in the two Reno newspapers will easily put the 
visitor in touch with such residents as wish to rent furnished 
rooms, and by the same token can be found quite a few offer- 
ings of entire bungalows, furnished, at a reasonable rental; so 
that to strike a fair average for house accommodations I should 
say, that you can rent a well furnished room for $10 per 
week, a small apartment for $50 per month and a bungalow 
anywhere from $25.00 to $150.00 a month. The higher 
prices carrying luxurious and beautiful furnishings, location, etc. 

In connection with the housing accommodations the con- 
sideration of food comes before us. This proposition need not 
worry the visitor to Reno. There are Cafeterias or "help 
yourself" restaurants; there are several very fair general res- 
taurants and a multitude of lunch counters. The cost of food 
in these restaurants is about the same as in the Eastern cities, 
but to any one who is not too fastidious I would recommend 
the "regular" lunch and "regular" dinner served in quite a 
number of restaurants at a cost of forty cents and seventy-five 
cents respectively. I found these meals to be excellent and 
the food to be very good. 

To those who prefer to prepare their own meals m their 
apartments there will be found in Reno plenty of grocers, 
butchers and purveyors of food of all kinds. The price for 
groceries here is about normal, but the housewife will be in- 
stantly struck with the very reasonable prices prevailing for 
the meat and vegetables. Exactly speaking I should say that 
meat, and first class meat, much of it home killed under Gov- 
ernment inspection and very little of it cold storage, can be 
bought in Reno thirty percent less than it can be bought for in 
the large Eastern cities, and being in such close proximity to 



Six Months in Reno 27 

California, the most delicious fruits, vegetables and flo\v^ers 
can be obtained at prices considerably below those of Eastern 
cities. The Chamber of Commerce estimates that an average 
fanrily of five can live in Reno on $150 a month, and from 
personal observation I should say that this estimate is very 
nearly correct. 




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Chapter V. 
RENO'S ROADS AND RtsORTS. 



IN the last chapter we found ourselves situated in some 
kind of a home and the next problem that confronts the 
, ^ visitor is the use of his time, what to do with himself and 
— where to go. 

The visitor's life in Reno goes through three stages; in 
the first stage, he is interested in exploring the city, noticing 
where the shops are, looking at the public buildings, etc. In 
the second stage, the visitor finds himself becoming rather 
weary of the City and senses a feeling that there is not much 
to do and what there is can be done in a very few hours. 
After he has been here a while, however he passes into the 
third stage, which dispels this feeling of weariness because by 
this time he has begun to make friends, parties are made up, 
dinner engagements are made, visiting one another becomes 




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Phone 96 



HARVEY'S 

RIDING 

ACADEMY 

SPLENDID SADDLE HORSES 
Reasonable Rates 

Expert Instruction — Special Classes for Children 

30 CALIFORNIA AVE. - - Reno, Nevada 



Six Months in Reno 



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popular, and finally the day becomes a busy one and time no 
longer drags. 

As we are denied the use of the trolley for expedition we 
find ourselves narrowed down to our feet, a motor or a horse. 
There are many very beautiful walks and climbs too, for that 
matter, in and around Reno. The City also maintains a public 
play ground with three excellent tennis courts used constantly 
during the winter, yet my illustrations will show not only the 
tennis courts but the play grounds for the children, in addition 




PLAYGROUNDS 



to which the City has dammed the Truckee River right at 
this play ground so that an excellent swimming pool is pro- 
vided in the summer time. There are several first class livery 
stables in Reno the proprietors, of which, make a specialty of 
hiring out well trained horses to those who wish to ride and 
arrangements can be made whereby any particular horse can 
be used by one person only, the cost of which is usually about 
$60 per month. It is very common sight to see parties of three 
or four ladies riding out into the Sagebrush Desert or out to 



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Large Touring Cars with Careful Drivers 

Furnished for Out-of-town Trips and Picnics 

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Six Months in Reno 33 

the Springs, so that those who are fond of horseback riding 
had better bring their riding clothes with them. To the motor- 
ist accustomed to the level roads in the East, the roads outside 
of Reno at least at first appear to be positively awful, but 
after one has driven a car along these desert roads for a week 
or two he finds that they are not nearly as bad as he thought 
they were, and he acquires a sort of intuition in driving, and 
the bumpy roads appear to be far less formidable, Reno, how- 
ever, is rapidly improving her roads. To the south there is a 
concrete highway to Carson City — 30 miles — about half com- 



STEAMBOAT SPRINGS 



pleted. This fine road will be completed in 1 92 1 . To the 
west there is a hard surfaced road to Verdi — 12 miles — and in 
1 92 1 this road will be all hard surfaced right to the California 
State line. To the north there is a hard surfaced road to 
Purdy — 12 miles to the California line — grading and gravel- 
ing to be finished in 1 92 1 . To the east the county has com- 
pleted plans for a hard surfaced road to Wadsworth — 35 
miles to the county line. The Nevada Highway Association 
conducts a most excellent Bureau with offices in the Chamber 
of Commerce, and any motorist can get full information as to 



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Six Months in Reno 



the Nevada highways from it. Motor cars can be picked up 
second hand in Reno at all kinds of prices, a fair average 
quotation would be a good second hand runabout at $500 and 
a good five-seated touring car at possibly $900. People who 
have bought such cars tell me that they have no difficulty in 
disposing of them at a small loss from the purchased price. 
The garage accommodations m Reno are ample. The average 
fee for storing small cars is about $10 to $12 a month. With 
a car one can make many expeditions. I will not lay out any 




DESERT ROADS 



particular tour since the Highway Association is more com- 
petent than I am to do this, but I should like to say that within 
an easy run from Reno one can go to Carson City some 30 
miles from here. In one half hour he can go and see the won- 
derful Steamboat Springs whose volcanic action keeps them 
bubbling and steaming night and day, year in and year out. 
He can go in 15 minutes to Moana Springs, also volcanic, 
where there is a swimming pool patronized during the winter 
months, then he can go to Laughton's Springs, to Verdi, 



Six Months in Reno 



35 



whilst one of the most enjoyable trips of all is a thirty-five 
mile trip to Pyramid Lake. I cannot pass this trip without 
enlarging somewhat upon this beautiful lake. It measures 
forty miles long and is roughly eight miles across. The Truckee 
River flows into this lake, but no water flows from it, the eva- 
poration being great and is responsible for a more or less 
uniform level. The fishing is magnificent, speckled trout run- 
ning from four to eighteen pounds each, being plentiful, and 
one of the most delightful trips out of Reno is to go to Pyramid 




PYRAMID LAKE 



Lake and stop for a few days at the Willows. The Willows 
IS a ranch right on the shore of the lake. The proprietor has 
built a number of water proof cabins where visitors can sleep 
and furnishes meals at $1.00 per person. There they fur- 
nished me for $ 1 .00 with food enough to feed a regiment, 
the food being of excellent quality and splendidly cooked. 
What makes this Pyramid trip more attractive than any other 
out of Reno is, in my opinion, the magnificent scenery which 



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one passes through and no words can describe the majestic 
splendor and positively awe inspiring silence of the desert that 
one encounters on this trip, neither can I describe the peculiar 
sensation that the view of this lake produces upon one's mind 
when, after miles of desert hills and valleys, this magnificent 
sheet of blue water bursts into view. There are many other 
trips that one can make, and the train service on the Southern 
Pacific and the Electric Line to Minden affords quite a num- 
ber of interesting side trips. One can also reach Pyramid 




LAKE TAHOE 



Lake by the Southern Pacific should a motor car not be 
available, 

I cannot close this chapter without reference to that mag- 
nificent body of water known as Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, 
like Lake Pyramid, is a vast sheet of water perched upon the 
mountains, two-fifths of which is in Nevada, three fifths of it 
in California and the Lake is only twenty-three miles from 
Reno by air-line, but one has to travel some forty-nine miles 



Six Months in Reno 37 

by road to reach it. The shores of the Lake are dotted with 
some wonderful hotels and a large number of Nevada and 
California people make it their summer residence. I have only 
mentioned in this chapter the main objectives out of Reno, 
there are dozens of fairly well kept roads which one can 
traverse at one's leisure, and Reno is the center of the High- 
way System of Nevada, and has an important situation on the 
three Trans-Continental Highways; the Lincoln Highway, the 
Overland Trail and the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean High- 
way. 




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Chapter VI. 
SOCIAL LIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT. 



THERE are four theatres in Reno, devoted m the or- 
dinary course of things to the best class of moving 
picture entertainment in addition to which, road com- 

panies often stop off at Reno and play for one or two 

nights. The reason that there are no more theatrical com- 
panies offermg entertamment m Reno is, because that during 
the winter season the Southern Pacific Railroad is likely to be 
experiencing much snow trouble in the mountains, and com- 
panies which tour rather hesitate from stopping through fear 
that they may not get out on time. Arrangements have now 
been made to transport theatrical troupes to Reno on mail 
trains so that henceforth this class of entertainment is likely 
to be a more frequent visitor. Hitherto two days were lost 
in giving one show in Reno on account of the inconvenient 
tram schedules but this is now a thing of the past. With four 
moving picture theatres, changing their program at least twice 
a week, one need not fear for lack of amusement. There are 
also a considerable number of respectable dancing academies 
and the Riverside Hotel conducts dances once or more every 
week. The fraternal lodges will appeal to the man visitor 
and besides the smaller organizations, there are very active 
lodges of Elks, Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows 
and Woodmen. More particularly during the summer, tennis 
IS much in vogue and a short walk out of Reno brings the 
visitor to a small but well kept golf course, where he will 
experience, possibly for the first time in his life, the sensation 
of finding an earthen putting green. An excursion can also 
be made up to go over to Carson City, and inspect the pre- 



40 Six Months in Reno 

historic evidences to be found amongst the excavation taking 
place on the Prison grounds. I suppose I must include the 
two daily newspapers under the heading of Entertainment, 
these two papers, the "Reno Evening Gazette" and the 
"Nevada State Journal" give full Associated Press reports. 
The Gazette is published every evening except Sunday, and 
contains, on an average, eight to ten pages of matter and the 
Journal publishes eight to ten pages on week days and twelve 
pages on Sunday. Reno also has a Carnegie Library which 
IS equal to any similar mstitution in any city her size, with all 
the usual privileges of the Carnegie institutions. 

There is also a dramatic club formed in Reno and full in- 
formation about its organization and functions can be secured 
from the "Harmony Shop" whose address will be found on 
the advertising pages. 



Chapter VI. 
EMPLOYMENT. 



I 



FROM a reliable source it has been pretty well said that 
fifty per cent of the men and women who visit Reno, 
come here with the expectation of finding employment 
and of earning sufficient wages to support themselves 
during their visit. Being not only a small and thriving City, 
but being also a distributing point to many other Cities, Reno 
is generally able to provide employment to those who seek it. 
There is always work to be found in the trades as well 
as in the unskilled labor market and the supply of office and 
store positions is about equal to the demand. 

Tliis fact soon becomes patent to the visitor for, in place 
of the very ordinary and usually obnoxious person that one 
finds in the Eastern retail stores one finds here in the dry goods 
stores, the grocery stores, the restaurants and other shops, a 
very high class and genteel force of store people. Unfortu- 
nately most of them do not stay very long — they are probably 
taking the "Cure" — but then again others come to take their 
place. The average wages that a woman can depend on, to 
secure in Reno, is from $16.00 to $22.00 a week, whilst the 
men usually have no difficulty in finding employment with an 
average pay, of possibly Five Dollars a day. There is also 
another class of female visitors who is able to earn a very fair 
livelihood by attending to the needs of the wealthier lady visi- 
tors, in such things as dress making, hair dressing, etc., and, 
as the furnished apartment houses merely provide lodging, 
the occupants of these apartments give considerable work in 
the way of clothes washing, sweeping and cleaning. This 
work is usually paid for by the hour and runs from Fifty Cents 



42 Six Months in Reno 

to a Dollar. To the man not afraid of real hard manual labor, 
Reno will be found willing at all times to provide work, and 
there is usually a chance to fit into some job without any delay 
at all. The working girls who arrive in Reno, would do well 
to put themselves in touch with the Young Women's Christian 
Association, situated in the City Hall close to the Post Office, 
as this organization performs the same efficient work here that 
it does all over the country. There are also positions to be 
obtained as waitresses and so forth in the hotels and I am 
quite safe in saying that no girl or woman need have any fear 
as to her ability to find employment if she really wishes it. 




Chapter VII. 
THE LEGAL SIDE OF RENO. 

HEN, in the course of conversation round tea- 
tables, in the theatre, or elsewhere, one hears the 
statement that Mrs. So and So has gone to Reno, 
nobody ever asks why she went there, because 
poor little Reno is only known in the East as being a place 
one goes to for divorce. Perhaps it would be well to delve 
into this subject a little and find out why Reno is considered 
such a Mecca for those who suffer from marital troubles. 
Away back in the early Sixities, the great State of Nevada 
was so thinly populated that the pioneers of the State set about 
to enlarge the population by offering considerably more liberal 
inducements than those offered by the more settled com- 
munities, and therefore, a law was passed making the residence 
of six months in Nevada a sufficient time to acquire citizenship, 
and citizenship in Nevada naturally offers amongst its induce- 
ments, the protection and right to sue under its Laws. The 
Nevada Solons who passed this law of six months residence, 
did so to induce settlers to come here, so that sixty years after 
this law was passed we find its benefits being enjoyed by a 
very different class of settlers from those intended by the old 
time law makers. The reason that people come to Reno and 
establish a six months residence, is not because it gives them a 
legal standing here to sue for divorce; but because at the ex- 
piration of six months one is able to secure a divorce Tvithout 
anp strings attached to it. The chief objections of the Reno 
visitor to securing a divorce in his own state are, either the 
statutory grounds are too severe, or else because the decree 
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prevent re-marriage for a considerable time after the decree 
has been granted; whereas, if one secures a decree of divorce 
in Nevada one is free to re-marry immediately, should one wish 
to do so. In the year 1919, the State of Nevada granted 740 
divorces, whilst in the same year the City of Los Angeles 
granted 7,4 1 9 ; so that it seems to me the spot-light might very 
conveniently be turned off Reno and put on Los Angeles for 
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WASHOE COUNTY COURT HOUSE 

come from Los Angeles and establish there residence in Reno 
for the simple reason that Los Angeles grants an interlocutory 
decree which prevents the party re-marrying within one year, 
whereas, Reno grants a straight out and out divorce. From 
time to time considerable disturbance is caused to the divorce 
situation of Reno by the circulation of petitions to the legis- 
lature. 

These petitions usually pray that the laws be made more 
stringent, or that the Interlocutory phase of the situation be 



46 Six Months in Reno 

injected into the decision, or that the time of residence should 
be made longer; but the business men of Reno, appreciating 
the commercial advantages of her present divorce law, nat- 
urally have no sympathy with these petitions, and up to the 
time that this book is published, there have been no recent 
amendments made to the rules and regulations governing the 
divorce laws in Nevada. The wildest stories have been cir- 
culated from time to time as to the ease with which one can 
get a divorce in Nevada. There are stories of a lady coming 
to the city for two days, getting back to New York for five 
months, and then coming back to spend the final month in 
Reno, thus establishing her residence. Another story is how 
a lady arranged to serve papers on her husband by having him 
pass through the City on one of the Trans-Continental trains. 

These stories are absolute fabrications and I should like 
to say, with the greatest possible emphasis, that the better class 
of lawyers and the Judges themselves are, without doubt, of 
the very highest order of probity, and I have no hesitation 
whatsoever, in saying that anyone who states that any Nevada 
Judge can be improperly approached is grossly misinformed. 

It is only because contestants for divorce have wilfully 
endeavored to dodge the necessary requirements that Judges 
have, of late years, become more strict in their rulings and in 
their questions to applicants for divorce; and I know for a 
positive fact that a great many of the legal talent in Reno 
were infuriated at an article which appeared in the "Pictorial 
Review" for October, 1920, entitled, "Taking the Cure at 
Reno." Quite recently a case came before the court in which 
the Judge demanded of the "Residential witness" as to 
whether she had seen the plaintiff each and everi) day during 
the six months of her residence here. So the mere fact that 
you were, or even were supposed to be, in Reno for each and 



Six Months in Reno 47 

every day of the necessary six months seems to be insufficient, 
and future residents would do well to see to it that one person 
actually saw them here in the flesh, each and every day of 
these six months. I approach the subject of legal fees with 
great temerity because, as Mr. Samuel Weller wisely remarks 
in the "Pickwick Papers, "You pays your money and takes 
your choice" — neither have I any authentic facts on which to 
base my estimates, I have heard of the fee of $25,000 being 
paid, which of course is a blue ribbon fee for all time to come; 
but to people of good social standing and means, I think the 
average fees charged by lawyers in Reno run from $500 
down to $200. 

There have also come under my notice, several cases in 
which the plaintiff was personally known to me to be of very 
slender means and in some cases even dependent upon such 
monies that he or she could earn here, and these people have 
secured lawyer's services without payment of fees. Under the 
Bar Association's Rules the minimum fee is $150, but when a 
client cannot pay this amount it is not unusual for reputable 
counsel to contribute their services gratis. 

As a matter of fact, the lawyer has but little to do be- 
cause, until completion of the fifth month, his client probably 
never consults him except in some extraordinary situation. At 
the expiration of the six months, when the person wishing 
divorce has become a duly recognized citizen of Nevada, the 
lawyer begins to get busy. The machinery of the Law which 
records such things as service by publication, service inside and 
outside of the State, personal service, etc., does not come 
within my province to explain; but the following chapter, by 
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that the judges sitting in the Washoe County Court are men 
of kindly temperment; satiated with stories of domestic un- 
happiness day in and day out as they sit upon the bench; that 
it is their desire to temper Mercy with Justice, and with this 
end in view they are, in my opinion, wilHng to help and anxious 
to bring happiness to the apphcant before them, and it is the 
greatest tribute to the integrity of these men that they remain 
unsulhed by bribe and intrigue when one considers that their 
recompense by the State is an insignificant Forty-five hundred 
dollars per year. The all absorbing subject of six month's 
residence in Reno is not without its farcial side, many queer 
stories are circulated as to its workings. It is rather amusing 
to hear somebody say they are going for a trip to some place 
or other but are not quite sure whether it is in Washoe County 
or not and must therefore consult a road map; other people 
premeditate a wild dash to San Francisco and back, until their 
better judgment tells them not to; but I think the most ludicrous 
situation was one which came under my notice whilst in Reno. 
A certain lady came to Reno in order to establish her residence 
here and engaged a home on the ground floor of one of the 
more expensive apartment houses. So afraid was she that 
friend husband, (whom she had not heard of for some years) 
would find out that she was in Reno, that she purchased some 
very healthy iron bars in the hardware store, which she had 
affixed to the windows to keep friend husband out, should he 
suddenly turn up. 

Not being satisfied that these iron bars were entirely a 
protection to her and an opportunity presenting itself, she 
gave up this ground floor apartment and took a second story 
apartment in another house, in order that she might be more 
secure from assault by her husband, should he suddenly ap- 
pear. Safely and snugly she roosted in the upper story apart- 



50 Six Months in Reno 

ment, ever on the watch for the monster, passing her time 
until the moment arrived when she would serve him with the 
necessary legal papers, which she did. Imagine the surprise, 
disgust and mortification that were hers when the papers were 
returned from her husband's last known residence with the 
indorsement upon them, **Part^ has been dead three years" 

The great theme of discussion amongst the visitors here is 
as to whether or not the defendant will sign his or her Power 
of Attorney, to be read at the trial. Along these lines I once 
heard a woman at a Spiritualist meeting ask the medium the 
following question: "Will the man wot (sic) never done (sic) 
a decent act in his life do the right thing by me now?" I csr- 
tainly sympathize with the medium whtn she dodged the 
question by answering it as follows: "You should try and see 
the good in the man and not the bad." An answer which 
did not seem to be of much comfort to the person asking the 
question. This Power of Attorney that I speak about is an 
important phase of the action which is fully discussed under 
the legal heading. So that as a final word, my advice to the 
intending Visitor is this: If you intend to come to Reno with 
the object of securing a divorce, make up your mind to live 
up to each and every requirement of the Law; and do not 
imagine that you can circumvent this Law, because you cannot, 
and any attempt at "putting something over" will probably 
result in your having wasted your time. 



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Chapter Vlli. 

THE LAW. 

The Statutes of Nevada, relating to marriage and divorce, 
as amended February 23, 1915. 

Section 5838. Divorce, How Obtained, 

Divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be obtained by 
complaint under oath, to the District Court of the County in 
which the cause therefor shall have accrued, or in which the 
defendant shall reside or be found, or in which the plaintiff 
shall reside, if the latter be either the county in which the 
parties last cohabited, or in which the plaintiff shall have re- 
sided six months before suit is brought, for the following causes: 

Causes for Divorce. 

1 . Impotency at the time of the marriage continuing to the 
time of the divorce. 

2. Adultery since the marriage remaining unforgiven. 

3. Wilful desertion at any time of either party by the other 
for the period of one year. 

4. Conviction of felony or infamous crime. 

5. Habitual gross drunkenness, contracted since marriage 
of either party, which shall incapacitate such party from con- 
tributing his or her share to the support of the family. 

6. Extreme cruelty in either party. 

7. Neglect of the husband for the period of one year to 
provide the common necessaries of life, when such neglect is 
not the result of poverty on the part of the husband which he 
could not avoid by ordinary industry. 



52 Six Months in Reno 

The above causes are plain In their language and meaning, 
and require no further explanation. There has been, how- 
ever, a good deal of discussion as to cause six thereof, i. e., 
what constitutes extreme cruelty? 

A complaint, in an action by wife for divorce, alleging 
that defendant inhumanly caught plaintiff by the throat in an 
angry and threatening manner, and forced her out of the 
house; threatened her and commanded that she leave; called 
her vile and opprobrious names ; thereby causing her to become 
weak and nervous, fearfully suffering bodily injury at de- 
fendant's hand — sufficiently alleged extreme cruelty. 

(Kapp V. District Court, 31 Nev. 444, 103 Pac. 235.) 

In an action by a wife for divorce, the complaint, after 
alleging several threats of defendant to kill plaintiff, set out 
that, on a certain date, defendant falsely accused plaintiff of 
improper conduct m keeping company with other men without 
defendant's consent, and that such accusation, reiterated almost 
daily for six weeks, in conjunction with the said threats, and 
defendant's frequent drunkenness, and a habit of gambling, 
had caused plaintiff great bodily pain and mental anguish 
which seriously affected her health, destroying her happiness, 
and rendered her life so unendurable that she was forced to 
cease living with defendant: Held, sufficient to constitute a 
action for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. 

(Gardner v. Gardner, 2 Nev. 207, 45 Pac. 139.) 

A divorce will not be granted on the ground of cruelty 
where it appears that the complaining party has wilfully pro- 
voked the violence or misconduct complained of, unless such 
violence greatly exceeds the provocations. 

(Reed V. Reed, 4 Nev. 395.) 

False accusations, by the wife, of marital infidelity on the 



Six Months in Reno 53 

part of the husband, may in certain cases constitute such ex- 
treme cruelty as to entitle the husband to a divorce. The 
Statute contemplates cases in which the husband may be the 
complaining party, and in such cases it affords him the same 
relief it extends to a complaining wife. (Idem.) 

In an action for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty, 
the evidence is not necessarily to be limited to the particular 
facts charged, but evidence of other facts whether before or 
after suit brought, which serves to give character to the acts 
of cruelty alleged and proved, is admissable. 

(Gardner v. Gardner, 23 Nev. 207.) 

The acts or character of treatment which will amount to 
extreme cruelty sufficient to constitute a ground for divorce 
must, in a great measure, depend upon the character of the 
respective parties and the peculiar circumstances of each case. 

(Reed V. Reed, 4 Nev. ^95.) 

There may be extreme cruelty without the slightest vio- 
lence; if it appears probable that the life of one of the parties 
will be rendered miserable by any character of misconduct 
upon the part of the other, although no personal violence be 
apprehended, a divorce should be decreed. (Idem.) 

Section 3609. Legal Residence Defined — Proviso. 

TTie legal residence of a person with reference to his or 
her right of suffrage, eligibility to office, right to naturaliza- 
tion, right to maintain or defend any suit at law or in equity, 
or any other right dependent upon residence, is that place where 
he or she s;hall have been actually, physically and corporeally 
present, within the state or county, as the case may be, during 
all of the period for which residence is claimed by him or her; 
provided, however, should any person absent himself from the 
jurisdiction of his residence with the intention in good faith to 



54 Six Months in Reno 

return without delay and continue his residence, the time of 
such absence shall not be considered in determining the fact 
of such residence. 

This provision of Nevada law has been passed upon by 
the Supreme Court of Nevada and with reference to its appli- 
cation to residence in divorce action in which residence is an 
essential requirement of jurisdictional proof, it has been held 
that plaintiff must establish positive proof that he or she has 
resided continuously, actually, corporeally and physically 
during the entire period of six months before the filing of suit 
in the County in which such suit has been instituted, in order 
to confer jurisdiction. (Fleming v. Fleming, 36 Nev. 135.) 

Section 5016. Actions, How Commenced. 

Civil actions in the District Court shall be commenced by 
the filing of a complaint with the clerk of the court and the 
issuance of a summons thereon and the placing of the same 
in the hands of the Sheriif of the county or other person author- 
ized to serve the same, provided, that after the filing of the 
complaint a defendant in the action may appear, answer or 
demur, whether the summons has been issued or not, and such 
appearance, answer or demurrer shall be deemed a waiver of 
summons. 

Section 5018. Summons, What Shall State. 

The summons shall state the parties to the action, the 
court in which it is brought, the county in which the complaint 
is filed, the cause and general nature of the action, and require 
the defendant to appear and answer the complaint within the 
time mentioned in the next section after the service of summons, 
exclusive of the day of service; or that judgment by default 
will be taken against him, according to the prayer of the com- 
plaint, briefly stating the relief demanded in the complaint. 



Six Months in Reno 55 

The names of the plaintiff's attorneys shall be indorsed upon 

the summons. 

(Sweeney v. Schultes, 19 Nev. 57. 6 P. 44.) 
(Sherwin v. Sherwin, 33 Nev. _. I 11 P. 288.) 

Section 5019. Answer, — Time Allowed For. 

The time in which the summons shall require the defendant 
to answer the complamt shall be as follows: 

1 . If the defendant is served within the county in which 
the action is brought, ten days. 

2. If the defendant is served out of the county, but m 
the district in which the action is brought, twenty days. 

3. In all other cases forty days. 

Section 5022. Summons, By Whom Served, Proof of Re- 
turn. 

The summons shall be* served by the sheriff of the county 
where the defendant is found, or by his deputy, or by any 
citizen of the United States over twenty-one years of age; 
and, except as hereinafter provided, a copy of the complaint, 
certified by the clerk or the plaintiff's attorney, shall be served 
with the summons. When the summons shall be served by the 
sheriff or his deputy, it shall be returned with the certificate or 
affidavit of the officer, of its service, and of the service of a 
copy of the complaint, to the office of the clerk of the county 
in which the action is commenced. 

Section 5026. When Service Made by Publication. 

When the person on whom the service is to be made re- 
sides out of the state, or has departed from the state, or can- 
not, after due diligence, be found within the state, or conceals 
himself to avoid the service of the summons, and the fact shall 



56 Six Months in Reno 

appear by affidavit, to the satisfaction of the court or judge 
thereof, and it shall appear, either by affidavit or a verified 
complaint on file, that a cause of action exists against the de- 
fendant in respect to w^hom the service is to be made, or that 
he is a necessary or proper party to the action, such court or 
judge may grant an order that the service be made by the 
publication of the summons. 

Section 5027. Order, Mailing Copies, Personal Service, 
When Complete. 

The order shall direct the publication to be made in a 
newspaper to be designated by the court, or judge thereof, 
as one most likely to give notice to the person to be served, 
for a period of six weeks, and at least once a week during 
said time. In case of publication, where the residence of a 
non-resident or absent defendant is known, the court or judge 
shall also direct a copy of the summons and complaint to be 
deposited in the post office directed to the person to be served 
at his place of residence. When publication is ordered, per- 
sonal service of a copy of the summons and complaint out of 
the state, shall be equivalent to completed service by publi- 
cation and deposit in the postoffice, and the person so served 
shall have forty days after said service to appear and answer 
or demur. 

The service of the summons shall be deemed complete in 
cases of publication at the expiration of six weeks from the 
first publication, and in cases when a deposit of a copy of the 
summons and complaint in the post office is also required, at 
the expiration of six weeks from such deposit. 

(Pratt V. Stone, 25 Nev. 366. 374.) 

(Coffin V. Bell, 22 Nev. 169. 183.) 



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Section 5034. Jurisdiction, When Acquired. 

From the time of the service of the summons in a civil 
action, the court shall be deemed to have acquired jurisdiction, 
and to have control of all the subsequent proceedings. 

A voluntary appearance of the defendant shall be equiva- 
lent to personal service of the summons upon him. 

Section 5230. Reference Ordered Upon Agreement of 
Parties. 

A reference may be ordered upon the agreement of the 
parties, filed with the clerk, or entered in the minutes: 

1. To try any or all of the issues in an action or pro- 
ceeding whether of fact or of law, and to report a finding or 
judgment thereon. 

2. To ascertain a fact necessary to enable the court to 
proceed and determine the case. 

(Fitzpatrick v. Fitzpatrick, 6 Nev. 65.) 

Section 5235. Report of Referee to Stand as Decision of 
Court. 

The referee shall make his report within ten days after 
the testimony before him is closed. The report upon the whole 
issue shall stand as the decision of the court, and upon filing 
the report with the clerk of the court, judgment may be entered 
thereon in the same manner as if the action had been tried by 
the court. The decision of the referee may be expected to 
and reviewed in like manner as if made by the court. When 
the referee is to report the facts, the report shall have the 
effect of a special verdict. 

Section 5842. Testimony, Pleadings and Orders. 

The testimony of witnesses in suits for divorce, shall be 



58 Six Months in Reno 

given orally in court, with the right to either party to take and 
use depositions, on the same terms and in the same manner as 
in actions at law; and the proceedings, pleadings and practice 
shall conform to those at law, as nearly as conveniently may 
be, but all preliminary and final orders may be in such form 
as will best effect the object of this act, and produce sub- 
stantial justice. 

Section 5845. Jury Trial. 

Either party, on application to the court, may be entitled 
at such trial, to have the issue of fact involved in such case and 
presented by the pleadings, tried by a jury, in accordance with 
the general rules governing the trial of civil actions in the 
District Court. 

Section 4863. Divorce Proceedings — Public May Be Ex- 
cluded. 

In an action for divorce the court may direct the trial of 
any issue of fact joined therein to be private, and upon such 
directions all persons may be excluded except the officers of 
the court, the parties, their witnesses and counsel. 

Section 5458. Testimony Taken Out of the State. 

The testimony of a witness out of the state may be taken 
by deposition in an action at any time after the service of the 
summons, or the appearance of the defendant, and in a special 
proceeding at any time after a question of fact has arisen 
therein. 

Section 5459. How Taken — By Whom Taken. 

The deposition of a witness out of this state, shall be taken 
upon commission issued from the court, under the seal of the 



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court, upon an order of the judge or court, on the appHcation 
of either party, upon five days' previous notice to the other. 
It shall be issued to a person agreed upon by the parties, or, 
if they do not agree, to any judge, justice of the peace, or 
notary public selected by the officer granting the commission, 
or to a commissioner appointed by the governor of this state 
to take affidavits and depositions in other states or territories. 

Section 5840. The court, in granting a divorce, shall 
make such disposition of, and provision for, the children, as 
shall appear most expedient under all the circumstances, and 
most for the present comfort and future well-being of such 
children. (Lake v. Bender, 18 Nev. 362, 4 Pac. 711.) 

Section 5843. Alimony Pendente Lite. 

In any suit for divorce now pending, or which may here- 
after be commenced, the court or judge may, in its discretion, 
upon application, of which due notice shall have been given 
to the husband, or his attorney, at any time after the filing of 
the complaint, require the husband to pay such sums as may 
be necessary to enable the wife to carry on or defend such suit, 
and for her support and the support of the children of the 
parties during the pendency of the suit. 

(Lake V. Lake, 16 Nev. 363, 366.) 

Section 5844. Cite (Wuest v. Wuest, 17 Nev. 221.) 

Section 5844. Effect of Divorce — Female's Name May Be 
Changed. 

Whenever an order of divorce from the bonds of matri- 
mony is granted by the court of competent authority (District 



60 Six Months in Reno 

Court), such order shall fully and completely dissolve the 
marriage contract as to both parties ; and in all suits for divorce 
brought by a female, if a divorce be granted, the court may, for 
just and reasonable cause, change the name of such female, 
and shall in its order, decree and appoint. 



CHAPTER IX. 
RAILROAD DISTANCES AND FARES. 



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O description of Reno can rightly be called complete 
unless is included in it a table of distances and fares 
from our largest centres of population. Reno seems to 
attract visitors from all over the Continent so that an 
alphabetical list of distances and fares may be found useful. 

Mr. J. M. Fulton has very kindly furnished me with these 
authentic figures, and as Mr. Fulton is the Assistant General 
Passenger Agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Reno, 
my raders may rest assured that the information is correct as 
of January 1 , 1 92 1 . 

The fares of course are merely transportation rates and 
do not include sleeping accommodations nor meals, but intend- 
ing visitors to Reno can look forward to very excellent service 
on the Southern Pacific which is, in all respects, one of the finest 
railroads in the United States. Some idea of its service can 
be gained from the fact that from January 1 to September 30, 
1920, the road carried no less than Thirty-eight Million pas- 
sengers. 



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FROM RENO TO 

War Dept. Fare 

Town. Mileage. One Way. 

Boston, Mass 3060 $1 15.94 

Buffalo. N. Y 2552 98.60 

Charleston, S. C 2873 104.94 

Cheyenne, Wyo. 1023 43.50 

Chicago, 111 2027 86.17 

Cincinnati, Ohio 2312 86.03 

Cleveland, Ohio 2384 92.00 

Denver. Colo 1130 47.28 

Detroit, Mich 2299 ' 89.60 

Galveston, Texas.. 2226 79.12 

Indianapolis, Ind. 2211 85.12 

Kansas City, Mo 1733 63.60 

Los Angeles, Calif.. 601 23.28 

Milwaukee, Wis 2112 82.85 

Minneapohs, Minn 1920 74.93 

New Orleans, La 2429 86.10 

New York, N. Y 2936 1 1 1 .66 

Ogden. Utah 539 26.04 

Omaha, Neb 1539 61.86 

Philadelphia, Pa 2844 108.42 

Pittsburg, Pa. 2495 95.f57 

Portland, Me 3169 119.85 

Portland, Ore.. 800 30.38 

St. Louis, Mo 1953 73.64 

St. Paul, Minn.... 1910 74.53 

San Francisco, Calif 243 10.26 

Savannah, Ga 2858 131.51 

Seattle, Wash 983 37.04 



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